Scrumpy's!

http://www.scrumpymacs.co.uk/

really helpful

Still expensive when used

I'll probably bite the bullet and get a new one as I prefer the look of the new mac mini's and the fact that they have an HDMI port built in (no stupid adaptor needed to connect to my TV).

I actually want to run a virtual machine on it as well (ubuntu server running in VirtualBox). I'm doubt the standard 2GB ram will be enough. Any thoughts?

In reply to a post by 5km:

That's true but I gave up on that idea last time I tried it (2006?). OS X would install and then boot but only once. I have no idea what the stability of any 'fake' mac system would be and it's not worth the time messing about, I'd rather buy a real mac.

It's come a long way since 2006.

I guess but Apple being Apple I doubt it's easy to do if it goes wrong you can't exactly ask Apple for help.

Come to think of it my PC back then might have had an AMD Athlon CPU which probably didn't help.

You would not be able to ask apple for help regardless, unless had applecare or icare or whatever. But yeah, basically, intel dual+, nvidia, nothing too fancy like usb3 and you're set.

Why run Linux on a Mac? get some dirt cheap X86 hardware for that.

Coz I want a mac anyway to learn OSX and possibly learn/make iOS apps. I don't want 2 computers, one mac and one PC sitting under my TV (the only place I have to put them).

Edited by deleted (Fri 22-Apr-11 18:39:53)

osx will run in virtualbox/vmware on the right machine/with the right hacks.

I don't want to mess about with things that might not work at all or might be unreliable.

I can see you have good programming career ahead of you. Are you likely to be this guy?